The U.S. government and several Ojibwe bands sign a treaty establishing the Long Prairie Reservation (between the Watab and Crow Wing Rivers) for the Winnebago (Ho-Chunk). Originally from Wisconsin, the Winnebago had been pushed to a reservation in Iowa and then were moved again to Long Prairie. This reservation would not be a good fit, however, and in 1855 they would move to Blue Earth Reservation. Following the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, they would be forced to move again, this time to a reservation in Dakota Territory.

1873

The Canadian government negotiates with Canadian tribes on U.S. territory when the lieutenant governor of Manitoba meets with 1,000 Indians at Harrison's Creek in the Northwest Angle.

1874

George W. Nims, a student at the Seabury Divinity School in Faribault, attempts to assassinate Bishop Henry B. Whipple. During a church service, Nims rises from the congregation, walks into the chancel, and points his pistol at Whipple. Luckily, he had forgotten to cock the hammer, giving bystanders enough time to tackle and subdue him. Whipple had turned him down for ordainment with his class as he had shown signs of being mentally unbalanced. Judged insane, he is sent to the asylum in St. Peter.

1928

President Calvin Coolidge visits Virginia and tours the iron mines.

1956

Albert Woolson, the last surviving Union veteran of the Civil War, dies in Duluth at age 109. Woolson had enlisted in the First Minnesota Heavy Artillery when he was sixteen, serving as a drummer boy. He was the model for a bronze figure on the Memorial to the Grand Army of the Republic at Gettysburg, although he did not fight there. Woolson moved to Duluth in 1905 and remained active in the GAR for decades.

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